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Cake day: September 15th, 2024

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  • While I appreciate that cheating is a problem in most games, I still think these Linux ban waves are just the companies trying to appear to the complaining playerbase that they’re putting effort into a solution even though it won’t make a big difference.

    Apex was one or the earliest games to support competitive multiplayer on Linux. While I hate EA for a lot of reasons, I couldn’t have fully switched to Linux years ago if Apex wasn’t playable because all the other games I played were and still aren’t.








  • Steam can download precompiled binaries that’s suitable for any system it they exist. If you turn it on, they’ll also collect shaders from you for others to download (not P2P).

    It’s often said in r/linux_gaming that you no longer need shader precompilation, though without giving any reason. In my experience turning it off doesn’t have any performance penalty. But games with baked -in shader compilation will take 10 minutes to do it themselves on every launch which is annoying af.